finished making everything proficient gear wise with tombs farm before it was nerfed and all stayed proficient. gear was the first thing every i know got out of the way then named items and weapons were last, the exotics are a pain in the butt. our order was .. all brand sets, all gear-sets, all select-able skills, most friends now level 17-20 now and just optimizing favorite stuff and upgrading expertise on all load outs.
Good info, but I actually think it's better to farm the brand sets and other gear sets FIRST then do the pistols/ other weapons, cause once you are over the "hump" of doing the brandsets/ other gear sets *(takes 10 per prof level)* FIRST, it's ALL downhill when doing the pistols/ other weapons since it's only *(2 per prof level)*. Then finally do the named items and skills
Just play the fucking game how it's meant to be played, that's my "secret"! Et voilà, expertise comes automatically over time by just spending materials without trying to rush through content again or trying to make another stupid, alleged rocket science from it in order to lash out more "Splain it to me!" videos and then sit there and cry again for new game content. How's that? But hey, who do I know. The YT mansplainer aka "content creators" think they always knew more about my games than I...they are so superior in skills and knowledge about everything... Pfffft! 🥳🤡
I like the flexibility in how you can become Proficient with all of the different gear, weapons, and etc. I do wish we got some bonus for just becoming Proficient. Also, I think they should make the Expertise upgrades applied to all copies of that item. For example if you upgrade a Famas, then the upgrade would be on any Famas you loot or own. Same with gear. It makes sense, because if you can become Proficient with all the pieces of a brand/gear set and all new looted drops by just equipping say the holster. Then what would be wrong with the upgrades carrying over as well? Might even save the Devs some server space when you think about how many players there are and the data for keeping track of specific items and copies of those specific items.
that will be great but they will not allow it because if a player with level 20 get a famas with that expertise and he/she are in a group with a friend that DO NOT have any expertise, they will drop it and now he/she will have a level 20 expertise famas even if he/she are in expertise level 1 unless they block the drop option, then they will not make that you get a copy of the same gun with the expertise you have
I just run around picking everything up as junk and donate. I'm not real big on grinding for expertise levels, it will come with time. See everyone ran through the season already like myself and have maxed out expertise and complain there is nothing to do and blame the Devs for shit.
I effing hate farming. All I'm doing is playing the game with my favorite builds, enjoying my favorite activities and picking up whatever weapons and gear that happened to drop and donating those items to my expertise. Overtime, and eventually, everything I have will be proficient, without it making it feel like farming.
Once you get proficient with some items, deconstructing those items for resources and continuously churning the resulting excess resources into proficiency is one of your best options to boost your levels, imo. Especially the weave/receiver parts. After about the first week or so I was pushing 800-1200 (so three hits on an items proficiency) after each and every countdown. If any of my green or blue resources (and it should be noted - you get an absolute ton of resource drops in countdown) crept up to around 1400, I’d push some of that back into proficiency as well. I usually leveled a named/exotic item from one to ten every other day. You can also use countdown to farm resources once you’ve gotten your proficiency. Want blue mats? Farm green gear sets. Need steel? Farm weapons.
I knocked out all my gearsets and brandsets, except for Yaahl, before the rollback. I was 12 before the rollback. I'm 8 now. I need to focus on weapons to get my level back up. They never should've rolled back people who weren't over 20.
for Skills... They are shared between characters, if you have a good SHD # (I'm 2900+) start a new Character and run NY again and then use the SHD reward to scavenge for $$$, buy skill mods and deconstruct them to get Printer Filament and donate that to level up your skills. I get about 2100 SHD rewards and upgraded 6 of the skills I use... just to Run NY solo takes 5hrs.. just do the missions...
I would make one suggestion. I have leveled up some of my raid exotics using printer filaments ONLY. Because about 3 runs I will set my loot to either gear mods or skill mods, farming for 'God rolls' on the mods. You can get about 30 mods per run, and I have been able to get about 200 filaments per countdown (depending on the stats of the mods). And since the amount of filaments needed to increase a skill is relatively cheap, you aren't losing more critical resources. Yes, it takes a while to max the printer resources, but given I haven't been able to attend a raid (PC crashing problems which have gotten much worse and haven't had the right gear until now), it is a decent way to level up those items/weapons that are difficult to get.
Thanx, for all the tips you have on that stuff! I am getting a hung of playing. I have not been playing for long only a few months now. I can tell you I do get Player Endorsements often wnen I help others. I like this more than COD! I turned to Level 30 yesterday. Watching your videos here helps me comprehend the ideals of playing. I am Boss Masato. Maybe, we will run into each other hopping it is on good terms. That DZ gets real difficult on your own. The NPCs, come for you in real tactical style. I need some buddies going in there. I have not done any of the expansions yet like NY. I have just been leveling up and customizing Weapon Layouts or sets. I did not know there is so much more involved!
When farming countdown using 6 pieces of the same family you just need 2 runs to get master, but for the loot its better to put weapons and farm hunters for named items.
@@kingslayerz1874 Countdown is so easy that the only real requirement is SHD1000 on the watch. With the bonus of SHD1000 you can run any 6 pieces of the same brand/gearset and still be usefull. Just use the Scorpio shotgun and at least revive hive (just in case ...) and you can play with anything .... For exemple with some brands I didnt had the 6 pces so I just crafted the one missing, without any recalibration, and still get "usefull" on the run ... Also I never been kicked from the group because using 6 pces of the same brand ...
Shocked you made it that far LOL. Was stuck at level 3 for the longest time but my main issue was I just didn't have the materials so I was crushing everything until I made another character rather than donating them at the expertise table. Also doing runs at countdown is the fastest way to get loot to donate (I was mostly just doing random activities using the gear I wanted to increase). This was a very slow way indeed. And like the poster says, go for guns first as the targeted loot. Wish I figured this out a few weeks ago or stumbled upon this video earlier. Had to figure most of this out on my own. Would be at level 12 instead of level 6.
Another advice : go countdown with at least 60 free slots in you inventory. Grab every loot as "junk" and give everything to expertise no matter if its good or not ...
This may have been mentioned but my process is to mark anything I don’t need as junk, go straight to expertise and donate junk, and deconstruct anything left.
Yep totally agree go into Countdown with at least 50 empty slots on ur main character and put the rest of ur spare gear on a duplicate character uve already got to Level 40 in New York expansion.
Skillz we spoke on your earlier video about expertise system and how it wasnt broken when leveling up, So someone comment on my post and said donation give you 1 point, toward your requirement for your expertise level . When get kill exp it give you 2 point on your expertise level , so if you only donated toward expertise level you will be short when you try to max out your expertise level
@@RevolutionNexus I used 6 pc of a gearset or a brand set, and farmed another set in countdown. ALOT of countdown. Once the weapon grind start its going fast.
NO STAHP You should farm green gear sets to DECONSTRUCT THEM FOR BLUE MATERIALS. This is one of the easiest way to get blue materials. Farm whatever you need for materials for expertise. Proficiency WILL come in time, you just need to make sure you have enough materials to actually expertise your stuff.
if your like me and you hit every small box in missions id recommend donating all materials 1 time that way when you run something like air and space museum you can hit the small storage boxs and get those components back
I'm tracking the progress of different items/skills while doing countdown. Skills/weapons take around 22 matches to full level up so it worth change them. Specialization in other hand dont even bother, it takes over 100 matches to level up each, so it's better run what you like and use filaments for the others. For filaments you dont need SHD mule, 1 countdown run targetting mods will net you around 250 filaments. Other way would be sell all the stuff you get, buy mods from the vendor and turn them into filaments. Either way will be faster than run over 100 countdowns with one specialization. About the gear sets usually 2 countdown runs are enough if you're wearing 6 pieces and it requires 3-4 runs if you're wearing 4 pieces, so just run 6 pieces. You can plan ahead what you'll do, like run 6 striker pieces, and you know you need couple gila pieces so you target gila while doing striker just enough to have 6 pieces to wear then you change the farm to other brand that you need pieces. Whatever pieces you dont need to have 6 you can donate. For named items buy what you can specially dz exclusives like Fenris chest from last week. Dont worry too much about the regular ones (like fox, contractors, zero f,...) we get a lot of drops and you can donate all the bad rolls you get while you're focused on everything else and by the end some will be proficient, some will be half way through and you can finish them up filaments. And yes farming weapons it's the way to go, in one day I went from 2/24 proficiency in pistols to 21/24 by targetting pistols and donating all of them.
If you want to get yaal gear you have a chance to get it when rolling randoms in the crafting station. Thanks for the video dude I was stuck on level 2 for ages 😁👍
that's pretty much what i did but i had a ton of dz credits as well as normal currency so bought a lot, did a few mule characters as wony takes like, 5 or 6 hours solo, so im up to 18 now with a couple of the green brandsets left. Taken a break from farming it, gonna hit a couple of mules after doing the apparel event. all i'd say is use your mule watch levels on items you're gonna find it hard to get a lot of, like eagle bearer/vast majority of exotics, skills, the dz exclusives etc. im pretty much 2 mules off 20 now. but then will need to redo the mules for more watch levels to use on levelling things up etc. its not gonna be a quick thing
Skills I play the shit outta this game and only level 4.5. These tips were a big help, thank you. There's so much to this game I forget stuff and just grind it out. Headed to the crafting table cya.
This is exactly what I have been doing. Just target what you need play how you want to play. I found my flamethrower tip of the spear smg build is by far the best thing in countdown for me. Was crit ting 1.3 million per shot at 900 rpm’s for heck’s sake the other day.
I'm trying to optimize my gear by deconstructing items for materials and if i have max on one of them then i donate some to weapons that i have fully optimized and i already have Bellstone, Gilla, Striker, Hunter, H.Breaker, Memento, Fox Prayer and the ACS1S fully proficient by playing
Good tips. A bit late for me, lol. I'm already maxed out at 344 Proficiency / Expertise Level 20. A lot o resources to grind for each. The really best way to grind them is in Countdown. Do not donate your Exotics for Proficiency. SAVE ALL EXOTICS to upgrade your weapons, gears and skills above Level 10.
@@anthonystaggs6239 target weapons and you'll get it. Targetting gear almost never drops, target something that you know there's easy drops like smg for chatterbox, shotguns for sweet dreams, assault rifles for capacitors you get one of those every other run.
@@sarsante I think the eagle bearer is the only one I don't have so not too bad. Question: can I donate exotics any time or do I need to wait til upgrading a specific piece?
i solo most of the time so i've just been doing control points in the zones with gear i need. it goes fairly fast as so much loot drops from CPs. i do some summit here and there as well.
I was going to say, reading these comments on all these people eating up what he's saying. There definitely no fast way to do this system, but donating 30 printer filament for the same XP as donating multiple hundred of materials seems a little broken if you as me. they should all be 30 materials. If the max level is only 20, seems fair. Community asks for fixes, they give us a new broken system and gear they can't make their minds up on over numbers.... not trying to rant, but that's all this game ever makes me do anymore.
Great tips Skills. I gained a few tips. Another thing I found is character mules are great especially if you have a high SHD watch. If you have “friends” (rolling thru the missions with you) can run through NY. You can literally level up a lev 30 character in 3-4 hours. If you wanted to delete a char and rinse and repeat. Comes in hand for optimization too. 😅
@@nastyline9693 You need to go to the "projects" and open one of them, there will be a button (at the bottom left, i think) to donate items, then you just choose the things you want to give them.
@@jamespeckham5703 You need to go to the "projects" and open one of them, there will be a button (at the bottom left, i think) to donate items, then you just choose the things you want to give them.
Hey Skills!! I'm glad The Division 2 reactivates, any chance you can share a spreadsheet of your Builds returning player here after 1.5 years out :0 so I have stuff to do :)
I do the Summit and keep going until I’m full and repeat. I thought the Dev’s were supposed to give us our expertise points back, that were lost from the update.
i´m currently at level 16 and now leveling up is very difficult, especially if your clock is not greater than 1000 SHD as it is in my case. I've been farming weapons, mods and gear but certain things just DO NOT drop to me, for example a the SMG UMP45, it wont drop, I have since the expertise mode came out and so far I have not dropped any so, that´s why i have been farming materials to donate, of curse using skill and weapons that i dont have competent. that way i level up does things and farm materials to level up other things the bad part it´s that IT WILL TAKE to long to level up to level 17
And here I did all the Gear and brand sets minus the named ofc, all in 2 days. BUT man do I hate these weapons, exotics and named... But I definitely agree Countdown is where its at assuming you dont crash every 2 seconds and the server doesn't lag out your teammates. BTW obviously Im talking about PC. You console players are beyond blessed in this regard.
Question anyone had issue with the specialization weapon being considered a exotic item every time I try to add second exotic says my Rocket luncher is one of my exotic items
You missed an important point though, if you have not completed the Iron Horse raid with your character to get the Regulus pistol then Yes countdown is perfect for farming pieces as you need a complete set of Foundry and Future Inititive to get to the regulus blueprint. A round of countdown will get you at least 1 of each piece....
The other question, which I can't find the answer to is - does the world difficulty (heroic, for example) makes the level up process of expertise faster? Do you get more XP or any other pros? Or should I lower the game difficulty to normal to level up expertise easier?
So ty so much for the advice on picking up D2 and skipping to warlords. Such an amazing DLC. Anyways do you have a clan going with a spot open? Ty again. I have so many of your videos to catch up on because I'm so out of the loop. Thanks again, soo much content for $12 bucks.
After the reduction of expertise levels it dropped my expertise of 2 to 1 and will not level up any more and will not let me donate to raise said items either so I'm stuck at expertise level one despite playing 3 to 4 hrs a day since Pease me of royally.
Every weekend I create another character and than spend the points on cash and buy every weapon on sale I'm not proficient with as it's only 2 each level , for about 5 hours work it's alot of levels and also level up gold items while doing the 30-40 also. Make the mules work 😅
It do cost to much.. For 1 gun it cost 55 exotic components, just for the gun alone... Then you have mask, vest, holster, kneepads, gloves and backpack to upgrade armor.. Thats ALOT of exotic components!! And on top of that you need all the other materials! Its just stupid! The devs talk about build diversity, thats not happens with this system
@@NothingButSkillz Is there any real reason to actually level up armor pieces? Kingbreaker +10% wepon damage before the multiplicables yes... But say 4 piece Bulwalk with +10 on 4 pieces would give you (170000*0.10)*4=68000 a whole lot of nothing and the resources spent to get there, ouch. Or does it work differently?
Who cares about Countdown, just played it not 1 hour ago on XboxSX, buggy mess, reviving the VIP I got stuck in the animation even after he was killed, Disconnects still happening, Hunters spawning right in front of you in a magic smoke, still broken on XboxSX.
Not me I never took off my hardwire and I farm countdown I'm done with all name brand sets all green sets AR's done shotguns done smgs done just farm till you're pack is full go to table get rid of those and so on
Very helpful. Thanks. Appreciate the tip on the PVP gun, as I don't play PVP. Are the exotic pistols in the general loot pool, or are they limited to PVP or Dark Zone?
Guys donate gear and weapons i went from expertise level 3 to level 7 just from donating junk gear and donating materials. Its a grind but its worth it and it works it's the fastest way to level up expertise you don't have to use the other gear you can use what you want just donate stuff.
On the skills, do they get points just by having it equipped like a second weapon, or to you have to use it? Would you get more point on a turret by dropping it, deconstruct it, cool-down and drop it gain. Or do it have to be killing to get the points. What about the revive hive? Would it be better to just let yourself get killed so it can raise you, cool-down and kill yourself again, or can it level up and you never used it. The bad thing is you have to deconstruct items so you have the mats to craft and optimize . You have to sell items to get credits so you can can buy the named items so you can donate them to the Expertise. I can understand the grind but when you have a job and only get to put in less than 10 hours a week, it disheartening to think how long its going to take you max out.
I'm about to be 20... And there's a mistake a i did.... Know I'm seeing that it's not exactly still 344 to get to the maximum level ... 339 will give me the level 20
Lol no! Dont waste your time with countdown. Summit floor 10 is best farm, bc you get SHD lv on top of it. You don't even get enough countdown credits from a full match to buy a named item yet alone a named item cache. And those items can be found on other vendors. I think cassie Mendoza for example has this week both the commando and empress chest of the countdown vendor (if i remember correctly the chest has even better stats at mendoza). Between the 3 DC vendors, 2 NY vendors, clan vendor and Mendoza all the non DZ exclusive named items are bound to cycle through within a few weeks.
Countdown is only decent if you are really hurting for certain named items and you are high enough SHD lv to not care anymore about raising your SHD lv. But if you are such a high lv already you should be able to get expertise lv 20 from just using your watch points and then it doesn't matter either way. For efficient progress summit is better than countdown.
that really doesnt make sense..it all has to be leveled to raise your exp....you leveled the fast ones first..but you will fall right into place farming the hardest ones next...just put reds on aleast 3 of the brand set pieces to still deal out decent damage
In the SMG section of the expertise bench towards the bottom there's a UMP45. Not UMP-45 or any variant, just UMP45, white text, nothing special. I've run dozens of countdowns, some with SMG targeted, and have been donating everything. I'm at 0 proficiency on the UMP45. Does this gun exist?
Got to say a shame about this new system is it has little to no value for casual players and it supports or encourages players wanting to be op to use hacks to farm xp which is sad to see
So the question is this I just farm weapons and then deconstruct them how does it level up just by collecting the weapons? This expertise is a little confusing
I just want to say about the outfit you're wearing. And I'm not alone in saying this because other Div players that I know gave all said the same thing that it looks like an S&M outfit... 🤣
Hey bro, question: I always donate all my junk I can to my Expertise but I heard you can accidentally max out the Proficient before you reach level 22 and there is no way to fix it? Is this true? Right now I am Expertise level 6 and Proficient with 52/359
farming countdown is good BUT only when the other players know what to do AND play in group I have come across players who do not know how to cooperate, they go to zones alone and end up dying or they kill the engineer and fail that zone, I have also come across players who do NOT kill the Hunters or activate the computers and when they do they stay standing around waiting to see where they are going, then instead of going to the closest area, they go to the farthest and end up wasting a lot of time getting there i think this mode will be GREAT if they change some points, like at that start you have to kill Hunters & active all 3 Computers in under 3 minutes, then ALL 8 players need to go to Objetive A, if you DONT complete Objective A you CANT go to Objetive B (the same gos for B, if you dont complete A + B you cant go to Main Objetive C) and if you dont complete A you will FAILD countdown automatically and for more challenge, make a countdown master mode, where all things you pick up you NEED to Extract them by calling the chopper and leaving, IF you dont call the chopper or leave the match on it, you will NOT get any item well at least that's my idea
Anyone know the cap at the countdown credits? I'm currently testing it out. I'm up over 3k countdown credits at the moment so next target of possible cap I'm guessing will be 5k. Should get there sometime today, or tomorrow.
How much internet bandwidth is this game trying to pull on lol!? I know it's just kilobytes of space but damn. The 1st gen community came back online, damn servers would struggle
Hope this helps you guys out! What is your secret to leveling?
finished making everything proficient gear wise with tombs farm before it was nerfed and all stayed proficient. gear was the first thing every i know got out of the way then named items and weapons were last, the exotics are a pain in the butt. our order was .. all brand sets, all gear-sets, all select-able skills, most friends now level 17-20 now and just optimizing favorite stuff and upgrading expertise on all load outs.
Good info, but I actually think it's better to farm the brand sets and other gear sets FIRST then do the pistols/ other weapons, cause once you are over the "hump" of doing the brandsets/ other gear sets *(takes 10 per prof level)* FIRST, it's ALL downhill when doing the pistols/ other weapons since it's only *(2 per prof level)*. Then finally do the named items and skills
I was doing it the exact same way you were. I'm gonna start farming weapons now.
Just play the fucking game how it's meant to be played, that's my "secret"! Et voilà, expertise comes automatically over time by just spending materials without trying to rush through content again or trying to make another stupid, alleged rocket science from it in order to lash out more "Splain it to me!" videos and then sit there and cry again for new game content. How's that? But hey, who do I know. The YT mansplainer aka "content creators" think they always knew more about my games than I...they are so superior in skills and knowledge about everything... Pfffft! 🥳🤡
I like the flexibility in how you can become Proficient with all of the different gear, weapons, and etc. I do wish we got some bonus for just becoming Proficient. Also, I think they should make the Expertise upgrades applied to all copies of that item.
For example if you upgrade a Famas, then the upgrade would be on any Famas you loot or own. Same with gear. It makes sense, because if you can become Proficient with all the pieces of a brand/gear set and all new looted drops by just equipping say the holster. Then what would be wrong with the upgrades carrying over as well?
Might even save the Devs some server space when you think about how many players there are and the data for keeping track of specific items and copies of those specific items.
I only save guns that come with damage to target out of cover so I can always roll the talent.
that will be great but they will not allow it because if a player with level 20 get a famas with that expertise and he/she are in a group with a friend that DO NOT have any expertise, they will drop it and now he/she will have a level 20 expertise famas even if he/she are in expertise level 1
unless they block the drop option, then they will not make that you get a copy of the same gun with the expertise you have
It’s an end game mechanic. Meant to give purpose to maxed out players. Giving them something to play for...
I just run around picking everything up as junk and donate. I'm not real big on grinding for expertise levels, it will come with time. See everyone ran through the season already like myself and have maxed out expertise and complain there is nothing to do and blame the Devs for shit.
Where do you donate items for expertise leveling?
@@jamespeckham5703 when you open the expertise on PS you hold the square button to donate all junk I just pick everything up as junk and donate it
@@GOOSE-1334 Thank you, I'll try it this morning.
That’s what I do as well and It’s fast enough for me.
@@GOOSE-1334 I didn't know you could donate in lumps. Makes this shit so much easier
I effing hate farming. All I'm doing is playing the game with my favorite builds, enjoying my favorite activities and picking up whatever weapons and gear that happened to drop and donating those items to my expertise. Overtime, and eventually, everything I have will be proficient, without it making it feel like farming.
I agree with you. I'm having fun just playing..
I too have just been playing but the Expertise system has had me switch out to new builds and use different gun combos.
Once you get proficient with some items, deconstructing those items for resources and continuously churning the resulting excess resources into proficiency is one of your best options to boost your levels, imo. Especially the weave/receiver parts. After about the first week or so I was pushing 800-1200 (so three hits on an items proficiency) after each and every countdown. If any of my green or blue resources (and it should be noted - you get an absolute ton of resource drops in countdown) crept up to around 1400, I’d push some of that back into proficiency as well. I usually leveled a named/exotic item from one to ten every other day.
You can also use countdown to farm resources once you’ve gotten your proficiency. Want blue mats? Farm green gear sets. Need steel? Farm weapons.
I knocked out all my gearsets and brandsets, except for Yaahl, before the rollback. I was 12 before the rollback. I'm 8 now. I need to focus on weapons to get my level back up. They never should've rolled back people who weren't over 20.
For those who don’t know on map go to countdown and select your gear or gun you want. It’s just like selecting in summit.
for Skills... They are shared between characters, if you have a good SHD # (I'm 2900+) start a new Character and run NY again and then use the SHD reward to scavenge for $$$, buy skill mods and deconstruct them to get Printer Filament and donate that to level up your skills. I get about 2100 SHD rewards and upgraded 6 of the skills I use... just to Run NY solo takes 5hrs.. just do the missions...
Exactly what I did to get max proficiency.
I’ve been doing this technique before the update. It’s what made sense to me from the beginning.
Me 2 🍻
I would make one suggestion. I have leveled up some of my raid exotics using printer filaments ONLY. Because about 3 runs I will set my loot to either gear mods or skill mods, farming for 'God rolls' on the mods. You can get about 30 mods per run, and I have been able to get about 200 filaments per countdown (depending on the stats of the mods). And since the amount of filaments needed to increase a skill is relatively cheap, you aren't losing more critical resources. Yes, it takes a while to max the printer resources, but given I haven't been able to attend a raid (PC crashing problems which have gotten much worse and haven't had the right gear until now), it is a decent way to level up those items/weapons that are difficult to get.
Thanx, for all the tips you have on that stuff! I am getting a hung of playing. I have not been playing for long only a few months now. I can tell you I do get Player Endorsements often wnen I help others. I like this more than COD! I turned to Level 30 yesterday. Watching your videos here helps me comprehend the ideals of playing. I am Boss Masato. Maybe, we will run into each other hopping it is on good terms. That DZ gets real difficult on your own. The NPCs, come for you in real tactical style. I need some buddies going in there. I have not done any of the expansions yet like NY. I have just been leveling up and customizing Weapon Layouts or sets. I did not know there is so much more involved!
When farming countdown using 6 pieces of the same family you just need 2 runs to get master, but for the loot its better to put weapons and farm hunters for named items.
At least do 3 and 3 so you're somewhat useful. I see 6 of the same items and rainbows they get the boot
@@kingslayerz1874 Countdown is so easy that the only real requirement is SHD1000 on the watch. With the bonus of SHD1000 you can run any 6 pieces of the same brand/gearset and still be usefull.
Just use the Scorpio shotgun and at least revive hive (just in case ...) and you can play with anything ....
For exemple with some brands I didnt had the 6 pces so I just crafted the one missing, without any recalibration, and still get "usefull" on the run ...
Also I never been kicked from the group because using 6 pces of the same brand ...
Thank you! I have been stuck on level 6 for days. I was wondering what I was doing wrong. Now I know.
Shocked you made it that far LOL. Was stuck at level 3 for the longest time but my main issue was I just didn't have the materials so I was crushing everything until I made another character rather than donating them at the expertise table. Also doing runs at countdown is the fastest way to get loot to donate (I was mostly just doing random activities using the gear I wanted to increase). This was a very slow way indeed. And like the poster says, go for guns first as the targeted loot. Wish I figured this out a few weeks ago or stumbled upon this video earlier. Had to figure most of this out on my own. Would be at level 12 instead of level 6.
Another advice : go countdown with at least 60 free slots in you inventory.
Grab every loot as "junk" and give everything to expertise no matter if its good or not ...
Love the shadow ''feature'' in the back around Inaya during the intro 😂😂
This may have been mentioned but my process is to mark anything I don’t need as junk, go straight to expertise and donate junk, and deconstruct anything left.
Yep totally agree go into Countdown with at least 50 empty slots on ur main character and put the rest of ur spare gear on a duplicate character uve already got to Level 40 in New York expansion.
Skillz we spoke on your earlier video about expertise system and how it wasnt broken when leveling up, So someone comment on my post and said donation give you 1 point, toward your requirement for your expertise level . When get kill exp it give you 2 point on your expertise level , so if you only donated toward expertise level you will be short when you try to max out your expertise level
Im expertise lv 10. I finished all gear sets and brand sets first. Those were easy. Now I focus only on weapons and skills. Works like a charm.
what strategy did you do the gear sets?
@@RevolutionNexus I used 6 pc of a gearset or a brand set, and farmed another set in countdown. ALOT of countdown. Once the weapon grind start its going fast.
NO STAHP
You should farm green gear sets to DECONSTRUCT THEM FOR BLUE MATERIALS. This is one of the easiest way to get blue materials. Farm whatever you need for materials for expertise. Proficiency WILL come in time, you just need to make sure you have enough materials to actually expertise your stuff.
if your like me and you hit every small box in missions id recommend donating all materials 1 time that way when you run something like air and space museum you can hit the small storage boxs and get those components back
I'm tracking the progress of different items/skills while doing countdown.
Skills/weapons take around 22 matches to full level up so it worth change them. Specialization in other hand dont even bother, it takes over 100 matches to level up each, so it's better run what you like and use filaments for the others. For filaments you dont need SHD mule, 1 countdown run targetting mods will net you around 250 filaments. Other way would be sell all the stuff you get, buy mods from the vendor and turn them into filaments. Either way will be faster than run over 100 countdowns with one specialization.
About the gear sets usually 2 countdown runs are enough if you're wearing 6 pieces and it requires 3-4 runs if you're wearing 4 pieces, so just run 6 pieces. You can plan ahead what you'll do, like run 6 striker pieces, and you know you need couple gila pieces so you target gila while doing striker just enough to have 6 pieces to wear then you change the farm to other brand that you need pieces. Whatever pieces you dont need to have 6 you can donate.
For named items buy what you can specially dz exclusives like Fenris chest from last week. Dont worry too much about the regular ones (like fox, contractors, zero f,...) we get a lot of drops and you can donate all the bad rolls you get while you're focused on everything else and by the end some will be proficient, some will be half way through and you can finish them up filaments.
And yes farming weapons it's the way to go, in one day I went from 2/24 proficiency in pistols to 21/24 by targetting pistols and donating all of them.
Thank you for info. I've just been donating junk items and was wondering why I'm stuck at such a low level
Thanks for the tips I was going to farm for brand sets and green items but will focus on guns first then others great video
If you want to get yaal gear you have a chance to get it when rolling randoms in the crafting station.
Thanks for the video dude I was stuck on level 2 for ages 😁👍
This is an awesome video about the Expertise system in leveling up the quickest way with invaluable tips. Thanks!
Thanks for clearing this up
I also noticed if you wear 3 pieces of each gear set and use them while farming for weapons. That you level up you gear sets quickly!
Very useful info. Thank you for the entel😎💪🏾
I'm so glad I watch this, especially being at level 2 proficiency 😎💪🏾
that's pretty much what i did but i had a ton of dz credits as well as normal currency so bought a lot, did a few mule characters as wony takes like, 5 or 6 hours solo, so im up to 18 now with a couple of the green brandsets left. Taken a break from farming it, gonna hit a couple of mules after doing the apparel event.
all i'd say is use your mule watch levels on items you're gonna find it hard to get a lot of, like eagle bearer/vast majority of exotics, skills, the dz exclusives etc. im pretty much 2 mules off 20 now. but then will need to redo the mules for more watch levels to use on levelling things up etc. its not gonna be a quick thing
Skills I play the shit outta this game and only level 4.5. These tips were a big help, thank you. There's so much to this game I forget stuff and just grind it out. Headed to the crafting table cya.
This is super insighful, def going to start icoperating this into the grind!
This is exactly what I have been doing. Just target what you need play how you want to play. I found my flamethrower tip of the spear smg build is by far the best thing in countdown for me. Was crit ting 1.3 million per shot at 900 rpm’s for heck’s sake the other day.
mans already got the full apparel drip lmao
Not hard just buy keys lol
That’s the same way I’m doing mines right now.
Thx alot man, see you there
Great video! Thanks for tips!
I'm trying to optimize my gear by deconstructing items for materials and if i have max on one of them then i donate some to weapons that i have fully optimized and i already have Bellstone, Gilla, Striker, Hunter, H.Breaker, Memento, Fox Prayer and the ACS1S fully proficient by playing
Good updates as always and consistent. Greetings from Malaysia.
Good tips. A bit late for me, lol. I'm already maxed out at 344 Proficiency / Expertise Level 20. A lot o resources to grind for each. The really best way to grind them is in Countdown. Do not donate your Exotics for Proficiency. SAVE ALL EXOTICS to upgrade your weapons, gears and skills above Level 10.
what exotics? have yet to get ONE to drop in countdown lol
@@anthonystaggs6239 target weapons and you'll get it. Targetting gear almost never drops, target something that you know there's easy drops like smg for chatterbox, shotguns for sweet dreams, assault rifles for capacitors you get one of those every other run.
@@sarsante I think the eagle bearer is the only one I don't have so not too bad. Question: can I donate exotics any time or do I need to wait til upgrading a specific piece?
i solo most of the time so i've just been doing control points in the zones with gear i need. it goes fairly fast as so much loot drops from CPs. i do some summit here and there as well.
Slap 4 directives on Cps and watch the gear drop
@@codyvarga9002 yup, i run it with 2-3 directives at the moment and i'm even noticing a lot of exotics dropping as well.
Also for skills I use printer filament to level up skills it only takes 30 printer filament
I was going to say, reading these comments on all these people eating up what he's saying. There definitely no fast way to do this system, but donating 30 printer filament for the same XP as donating multiple hundred of materials seems a little broken if you as me. they should all be 30 materials. If the max level is only 20, seems fair.
Community asks for fixes, they give us a new broken system and gear they can't make their minds up on over numbers.... not trying to rant, but that's all this game ever makes me do anymore.
Great tips Skills. I gained a few tips. Another thing I found is character mules are great especially if you have a high SHD watch. If you have “friends” (rolling thru the missions with you) can run through NY. You can literally level up a lev 30 character in 3-4 hours. If you wanted to delete a char and rinse and repeat. Comes in hand for optimization too. 😅
takes 4 hours to do it solo, with friends it should take 2, 3 tops.
Another mistake I did was do not "DECONSTRUCT" items. That was a bad mistake from me because I would've had higher expertise, damnit!
That's what I've been doing, how do you donate item to get proficient credit?
Damn
@@jamespeckham5703 same question how? Sorry Im new to this :(
@@nastyline9693 You need to go to the "projects" and open one of them, there will be a button (at the bottom left, i think) to donate items, then you just choose the things you want to give them.
@@jamespeckham5703 You need to go to the "projects" and open one of them, there will be a button (at the bottom left, i think) to donate items, then you just choose the things you want to give them.
Been farming weapons since the launch of this idk it takes almost a month for people to figure things
Hey Skills!! I'm glad The Division 2 reactivates, any chance you can share a spreadsheet of your Builds returning player here after 1.5 years out :0 so I have stuff to do :)
nice vid mate
I do the Summit and keep going until I’m full and repeat. I thought the Dev’s were supposed to give us our expertise points back, that were lost from the update.
I got too many loadouts, taking up too much space lol
Thanks my friend, there is always one golden nugget in your content. Now is the end game of the expertise to buff a favorite gear piece or weapon 10%?
i´m currently at level 16 and now leveling up is very difficult, especially if your clock is not greater than 1000 SHD as it is in my case.
I've been farming weapons, mods and gear but certain things just DO NOT drop to me, for example a the SMG UMP45, it wont drop, I have since the expertise mode came out and so far I have not dropped any
so, that´s why i have been farming materials to donate, of curse using skill and weapons that i dont have competent. that way i level up does things and farm materials to level up other things
the bad part it´s that IT WILL TAKE to long to level up to level 17
And here I did all the Gear and brand sets minus the named ofc, all in 2 days. BUT man do I hate these weapons, exotics and named... But I definitely agree Countdown is where its at assuming you dont crash every 2 seconds and the server doesn't lag out your teammates. BTW obviously Im talking about PC. You console players are beyond blessed in this regard.
Question anyone had issue with the specialization weapon being considered a exotic item every time I try to add second exotic says my Rocket luncher is one of my exotic items
Its considered an exotic for the speed at which it gains levels thats why its categorized as it
Dont use the countdown currency to buy named items they always sold by mendoza vendor just buy exotic to level up your weapon above level 10
You missed an important point though, if you have not completed the Iron Horse raid with your character to get the Regulus pistol then Yes countdown is perfect for farming pieces as you need a complete set of Foundry and Future Inititive to get to the regulus blueprint. A round of countdown will get you at least 1 of each piece....
I almost started a new game lol and about 20mins in I was like oh this sucks I dont know if I can put the time in again from level 1
Those countdown items can be bought from Cassie. Floor 10 is the move
The other question, which I can't find the answer to is - does the world difficulty (heroic, for example) makes the level up process of expertise faster? Do you get more XP or any other pros? Or should I lower the game difficulty to normal to level up expertise easier?
I just need materials back. Wonder if we are ever getting them back.
Yes you can use credits but the credits don’t pass or are shared between characters which I think is stupid they should be shared
So ty so much for the advice on picking up D2 and skipping to warlords. Such an amazing DLC. Anyways do you have a clan going with a spot open? Ty again. I have so many of your videos to catch up on because I'm so out of the loop. Thanks again, soo much content for $12 bucks.
After the reduction of expertise levels it dropped my expertise of 2 to 1 and will not level up any more and will not let me donate to raise said items either so I'm stuck at expertise level one despite playing 3 to 4 hrs a day since Pease me of royally.
DO NOT buy anything in the countdown vendor other than exotic caches, that is the bottleneck in expertise and upgrading
Every weekend I create another character and than spend the points on cash and buy every weapon on sale I'm not proficient with as it's only 2 each level , for about 5 hours work it's alot of levels and also level up gold items while doing the 30-40 also. Make the mules work 😅
The issue is not leveling, it’s the cost to upgrade. It’s gets very expensive as you go higher.
I mean only pick the items you love using. No reason to have every item lvl 20
@@NothingButSkillz true true, but I can’t even afford to get to level 4 😭 haha.
It do cost to much.. For 1 gun it cost 55 exotic components, just for the gun alone... Then you have mask, vest, holster, kneepads, gloves and backpack to upgrade armor.. Thats ALOT of exotic components!! And on top of that you need all the other materials! Its just stupid! The devs talk about build diversity, thats not happens with this system
@@NothingButSkillz Is there any real reason to actually level up armor pieces? Kingbreaker +10% wepon damage before the multiplicables yes... But say 4 piece Bulwalk with +10 on 4 pieces would give you (170000*0.10)*4=68000 a whole lot of nothing and the resources spent to get there, ouch. Or does it work differently?
i have been doing countdown as well as donating too
Who cares about Countdown, just played it not 1 hour ago on XboxSX, buggy mess, reviving the VIP I got stuck in the animation even after he was killed, Disconnects still happening, Hunters spawning right in front of you in a magic smoke, still broken on XboxSX.
Not me I never took off my hardwire and I farm countdown I'm done with all name brand sets all green sets AR's done shotguns done smgs done just farm till you're pack is full go to table get rid of those and so on
Very helpful. Thanks. Appreciate the tip on the PVP gun, as I don't play PVP. Are the exotic pistols in the general loot pool, or are they limited to PVP or Dark Zone?
Think they're mostly from raids except for the Liberty which you have to craft after doing a couple of missions in a specific order.
Leveling was fast until I beat warlords and am now level one nothing seems to help not even outposts
We can’t farm system Corruption anymore I seen
Yeah
Sc has never been in targeted loot rotation.
@@sum1759 it was when it first came out
@@jblue4786 it was on the season track, and season legacy caches but like yahhl it has never been in the loot pool.
@@sum1759 yeah I check it out but you can craft them anyway
Guys donate gear and weapons i went from expertise level 3 to level 7 just from donating junk gear and donating materials. Its a grind but its worth it and it works it's the fastest way to level up expertise you don't have to use the other gear you can use what you want just donate stuff.
Btw there's no system corrupt gear loot setting on the target loot for tower an countdown
On the skills, do they get points just by having it equipped like a second weapon, or to you have to use it? Would you get more point on a turret by dropping it, deconstruct it, cool-down and drop it gain. Or do it have to be killing to get the points. What about the revive hive? Would it be better to just let yourself get killed so it can raise you, cool-down and kill yourself again, or can it level up and you never used it.
The bad thing is you have to deconstruct items so you have the mats to craft and optimize . You have to sell items to get credits so you can can buy the named items so you can donate them to the Expertise. I can understand the grind but when you have a job and only get to put in less than 10 hours a week, it disheartening to think how long its going to take you max out.
Crazy shit is I’m almost 11 n proficient in more this system crazy
I'm about to be 20... And there's a mistake a i did.... Know I'm seeing that it's not exactly still 344 to get to the maximum level ... 339 will give me the level 20
Ok. Good to know. So u don't necessarily need 344 to get to 20. I was wondering about that.
@@maximus4everjay119 I just level 20 with 340 but still let me level up to 21... i dont get this!!!
The hollowmans mask is at countdown vender
I need a weapon transmog system... So at least on my screen the weapon will look different
What’s sum good pvp builds to make with the momento pack???
I did the same thing, wearring gear sets and farm the same gear set, im level 9 finaly, i was level 8 before the roll back :(
great video
Glad you enjoyed it
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Lol no! Dont waste your time with countdown. Summit floor 10 is best farm, bc you get SHD lv on top of it. You don't even get enough countdown credits from a full match to buy a named item yet alone a named item cache. And those items can be found on other vendors. I think cassie Mendoza for example has this week both the commando and empress chest of the countdown vendor (if i remember correctly the chest has even better stats at mendoza). Between the 3 DC vendors, 2 NY vendors, clan vendor and Mendoza all the non DZ exclusive named items are bound to cycle through within a few weeks.
Countdown is only decent if you are really hurting for certain named items and you are high enough SHD lv to not care anymore about raising your SHD lv. But if you are such a high lv already you should be able to get expertise lv 20 from just using your watch points and then it doesn't matter either way. For efficient progress summit is better than countdown.
unfortunately my english is not that good. is the quickest way to farm items and then donate them as scrap. Is that correct?
that really doesnt make sense..it all has to be leveled to raise your exp....you leveled the fast ones first..but you will fall right into place farming the hardest ones next...just put reds on aleast 3 of the brand set pieces to still deal out decent damage
In the SMG section of the expertise bench towards the bottom there's a UMP45. Not UMP-45 or any variant, just UMP45, white text, nothing special. I've run dozens of countdowns, some with SMG targeted, and have been donating everything. I'm at 0 proficiency on the UMP45. Does this gun exist?
Got to say a shame about this new system is it has little to no value for casual players and it supports or encourages players wanting to be op to use hacks to farm xp which is sad to see
So the question is this I just farm weapons and then deconstruct them how does it level up just by collecting the weapons? This expertise is a little confusing
Donate them don’t deconstruct them donate them to your library
@@NothingButSkillz thanks I was so lost on how to upgrade it
I just want to say about the outfit you're wearing. And I'm not alone in saying this because other Div players that I know gave all said the same thing that it looks like an S&M outfit... 🤣
I don’t care about expertise honestly if I get there I get there but I’m not about to play with other styles because I like playing the way I choose.
All I’m doing is donating junk then sell excess
so just to be be clear, u arm the weapons, and then u donate the weapons or do you disamble them and use the parts and donate them?
Hey bro, question:
I always donate all my junk I can to my Expertise but I heard you can accidentally max out the Proficient before you reach level 22 and there is no way to fix it? Is this true?
Right now I am Expertise level 6 and Proficient with 52/359
Thanks. 😎🇨🇴🔥👍🏻
farming countdown is good BUT only when the other players know what to do AND play in group
I have come across players who do not know how to cooperate, they go to zones alone and end up dying or they kill the engineer and fail that zone,
I have also come across players who do NOT kill the Hunters or activate the computers and when they do they stay standing around waiting to see where they are going, then instead of going to the closest area, they go to the farthest and end up wasting a lot of time getting there
i think this mode will be GREAT if they change some points, like at that start you have to kill Hunters & active all 3 Computers in under 3 minutes, then ALL 8 players need to go to Objetive A, if you DONT complete Objective A you CANT go to Objetive B (the same gos for B, if you dont complete A + B you cant go to Main Objetive C) and if you dont complete A you will FAILD countdown automatically
and for more challenge, make a countdown master mode, where all things you pick up you NEED to Extract them by calling the chopper and leaving, IF you dont call the chopper or leave the match on it, you will NOT get any item
well at least that's my idea
What backpack trophy are you using?
clear as mud
Anyone know the cap at the countdown credits? I'm currently testing it out. I'm up over 3k countdown credits at the moment so next target of possible cap I'm guessing will be 5k. Should get there sometime today, or tomorrow.
How much internet bandwidth is this game trying to pull on lol!? I know it's just kilobytes of space but damn. The 1st gen community came back online, damn servers would struggle